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KWS Granted Full GUM Membership

The Kingdom of West Sayville (KWS) recently became a full member of the Grand Unified Micronational (GUM), according to its prime minister, Sertor Valentinus.

The KWS was previously granted observership in the organization on October 13, 2020, a status that was eventually upgraded to provisional membership on December 23, 2020.

According to its MicroWiki page, the GUM describes itself as "an intermicronational organisation with the aim of helping diplomatic relations between micronations, with a general focus on its own member states." The organization was founded in 2009 and is primarily active in the MicroWiki sector of the micronational community.

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